Eyeglass-guard.



No. 722,080. PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903.

s. A. BROMBERG. EYEGLASS GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1. 1902 N0 MODEL.

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SAMUEL A. BROMBERG, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

EYEGLASS-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 722,080, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed November 1, 1902. S rial No. 129,678. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. BROMBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Eyeglass-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an eyeglass-guard, and has for its object the provision of a device of this class having yielding pieces or pads adapted to bear firmly and closely upon the nose of the wearer and to prevent the glasses from slipping out of place or falling from the nose and wherein is embodied a structure which will resist accidental disengagement of the pads.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a pair of eyeglasses embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspec tive View of one of the guard members. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through one of the guard-pads. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on the line 4 4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section through one of the guard-pads, showing a modification in the construction of the same.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 designates a pair of eyeglasses comprising the usual parts, such as lenses 2, bridge or nose-spring 3, secured to the lenses by posts 4, and guards 5.

The features of the invention are embodied in the guards 5, which comprise arms 6, intermediately secured to the outer sides of clamps 7. The clamps 7 have inner inclined flanges 8 with a space 9 between their edges. The inclined disposition of the flanges 8 of each clamp 7 provides a substantially triangular seat 10, and said flanges closely impinge against a holding-flange 11 of a pad 12. The body of the pad 12, as clearly shown by Figs. 3 and 4:, is tubular and circular in crosssection, and each pad is formed of suitable flexible material, preferably rubber. A modification of the pad is shown by Fig. 5 and consists in forming the same with a flat bearingface 13, which gives the body of the pad a semicircular contour in cross-section.

The pads 12 extend the full length of the clamps 7, and when the improved guards are brought in contact with the nose of the wearer of the eyeglasses embodying the same the preferred form of the pad (shown by Figs. 3 and 4:) in each guard is compressed andextended over a large portion of the opposite sides of the nose. When the form of the pad shown by Fig. 5 is used, the compression is not as great when the guards are in opposite position on the nose of the wearer, and the flat surface 13 will be effective in preventing accidental movement of the eyeglasses on or displacement thereof from the nose. Both forms of the pad will prevent the eyeglasses from slipping out of place, and an easy non-injurious bearing on opposite sides of the nose will result. Moreover, the wearing qualities of the improved guards are increased by forming the pads tubular, and all metal contact with the nose is prevented.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A nose-guard, comprising an arm and a clamp, the arm being connected at an intermediate point to the outer side of the clamp and the latter having the opposite side edges for their full length turned inwardly to provide inclined flanges, the opposite ends of the clamp being fully open, and a pad having a normally substantially triangular-shaped base-flange and a tubular body, the pad between the base-flange and adjacent portion of the tubular body being constricted and solid, the pad extending the full length of the clamp and the opposite side portions of the base-flange thereof engaged by the latter, the tubular portion of the pad being fully projected from the clamp and open at opposite ends.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL A. BROMBERG.

WVitnesses:

R. E. PEYTON, J r., WM. A. LOEHR. 

